~llama rejoins the party

[~llama]

Well, comrades, after a long drought (read: parents and then girlfriend thinking I had too many computers) of 68k-hunting, I scored pretty big today.

I now work at a computer store. One of our other repair techs ran out of room for old Macs (all of us have 68k collections) and offered me some scraps from his collection, so, like a good 68kMLA soldier, I accepted. Here's the haul:

Mac Plus, maxed out at 4MB of RAM, a keyboard missing some key caps (which is fine, because I already have a Plus keyboard) and original Macintosh mouse.

Mac SE, also maxed out at 4MB RAM, with two floppy drives and the bracket for a hard drive. Once I scrounge up a 20 or 40MB drive, I'll have an SE with two floppies and a hard drive--not a bad system at all!

LC III with 10MB of RAM, a crapload of extra VRAM DIMMs, a 500MB hard disk, and an LC PDS ethernet card. For some reason this one won't boot from SCSI, but I'll get it back in working shape.

And for the contraband: A sweet Radius 81/100 clone in a big tank-like case with no hard drives, and a big box of hard drives to go in it, one of which has OS 8.6 on it.

I'd call that a pretty good score, huh?

[ADDENDUM] The Radius also has two (count 'em) NuBus ethernet cards in it.

[EDIT] You don't need to know where I work, I guess.

 

[LCGuy]

Very nice! :O Welcome back, btw, good to have you back

About the LCIII..are you sure its not actually an LCII? Just wondering, as you cannot have 10MB of RAM in an LCIII, they have 4MB onboard, and one SIMM slot, allowing you to have a total of 4 MB, 5 MB, 6 MB (assuming they made 2 MB 72 pin SIMMs), 8 MB, 12 MB, 20 MB, or 32 MB.

 

[~llama]

Must be 12 then it's definitely an LCIII

 

[Christopher]

I thought apple employees are not supposed to post on apple forums.

 

[LCGuy]

Um, why's that? And more importantly, how could they possibly enforce that rule? While yes, they may have a problem with you surfing the forums on company time, and they would definately have a problem with you posting confidential information, they cannot legally stop you from posting on forums outside of work, even if they say, "don't go to Mac forums", there is no way they can legally enforce that.

 

[Mike Richardson]

Who said he was an Apple employee?

Don't you know of the Banana Computer stores based out of Memphis? They have Genius Bars too, except they call them "Genius Centers" instead.

 

[~llama]

What Mike Richardson said but it's beside the point because that was just background on how I scored this load of Macs. If it'll make you feel better, I'll edit the post...

Reminds me of the Banana Jr. computer from the old comic strip "Bloom County."